Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations - Lexicon, Volume 13Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Carey, Lea & Carey, 1833 |
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... tion of 1631 , gives the following descrip- tion of its interior . The crater was five miles in circumference , and about one thousand paces deep . Its sides were cov- ered with brush wood , and at the bottom there was a plain on which ...
... tion of 1631 , gives the following descrip- tion of its interior . The crater was five miles in circumference , and about one thousand paces deep . Its sides were cov- ered with brush wood , and at the bottom there was a plain on which ...
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... tion , in part at least , is made for the en- hancement of rents . All the inventions and facilities to production , transports- tion and exchange , also contribute to make a similar compensation . these causes , it may happen that , in ...
... tion , in part at least , is made for the en- hancement of rents . All the inventions and facilities to production , transports- tion and exchange , also contribute to make a similar compensation . these causes , it may happen that , in ...
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... tion , would it be practicable to establish it . The law has interposed , in many in- stances , in different countries , to regulate the price of labor and commodities ; but it is now universally admitted that any such interpositions ...
... tion , would it be practicable to establish it . The law has interposed , in many in- stances , in different countries , to regulate the price of labor and commodities ; but it is now universally admitted that any such interpositions ...
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... tion , was especially favorable to the en- terprises of the Wahabees , who , from their seat between the Persian gulf and · the Red sea , had reached several parts of Asiatic Turkey , before the slightest meas- ures were taken to put a ...
... tion , was especially favorable to the en- terprises of the Wahabees , who , from their seat between the Persian gulf and · the Red sea , had reached several parts of Asiatic Turkey , before the slightest meas- ures were taken to put a ...
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... tion , in a pamphlet written in 1798 , en- titled a Reply to the Bishop of Llandaff's Address to the People of Great Britain ; for which he was subjected to a crown prosecution for libel , which terminated in a trial and conviction in ...
... tion , in a pamphlet written in 1798 , en- titled a Reply to the Bishop of Llandaff's Address to the People of Great Britain ; for which he was subjected to a crown prosecution for libel , which terminated in a trial and conviction in ...
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